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Athlinks‘ tagline is “All of Your Results in One Place” and, boy, they aren’t kidding.

This database tool allows athletes to pull in times for races, triathlons, swimming, cycling, mountain biking and other timed sports by typing in their names into a search box. If the tool can’t find the race, you can still add the information by hand.

In the interest of full disclosure, Athlinks and I had a rough start. I created my account on my iPhone about six months ago and couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out how to get my races loaded. I almost gave up on the tool, then other BibRave Pros suggested I try the desktop version and it worked wonderfully. At the time, the company said it was working on its mobile version, so I suspect there won’t be much of a difference these days.

When I got it up and running, Athlinks pulled in all of the 17 races I’ve done — from my first 5K in 2012 to my last one in 2017 and everything in between. When you first log in, it shows you your personal records for different events and even logs your total distances (for all of your races, combined).

It also shows your personal records for each distance.

Once you find a race and add the results, you can see your chip time, pace, placement, splits and even the weather on race day. You can sort results by distance, year, category or event.

As I train for the Woodstock 50K for what will be my third time, for example, it was great to see how much I improved from my first to second year.

For someone with a Swiss cheese brain like me, this tool is a godsend because I can quickly look at previous races to see whether I’ve run them before, and track my progress.

A feature I haven’t used much is that it allows you to find other athletes and tag them as “rivals” to compare your accomplishments to theirs. So far, I’ve only added my good friend Vicki. There’s a similar feature to “follow” other athletes.

So if you want to use this free tool to track your races — and to visually see your progress all in one place — go check out Athlinks today.

How do you track your races? Would you be able to say how many you have run and at what pace? (You may have to click on “Continue Reading” to leave a comment.)